Pakuba Safari Lodge
Lodge with river-facing rooms · North bank beside Pakuba airfield, at the edge of the Buligi circuits · Pakuba Safari Lodge Ltd, under UWA concession
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Mid-range
Inside the park
Locally owned
Forty-six rooms on raised ground on the north bank, each with sliding windows onto the river, and the shortest possible drive to the game. Two things set it apart from its neighbours. It puts a complete price list on its own website, which almost nothing else at Murchison does, and it stands on the footprint of the original Pakuba Lodge from the Amin years, which fell derelict and was rebuilt under concession. The kitchen draws produce from the lodge's own farm.
Why you'd pick it
- One of the few lodges here that publishes a full rate card
- Elevated ground where the Buligi game tracks begin
- Rebuilt on the site of a derelict government lodge from the 1970s
What's here
- Swimming pool
- Restaurant
- Bar
- Family rooms
- Spa or massage
Arranged from the lodge:
- Game drives
Read from Pakuba Safari Lodge's own website in July 2026. Anything not listed we could not confirm, which is not the same as it being absent.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Murchison Falls National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entryCharged per 24 hours, and this is the only park in Uganda's top A+ band.
- $45per person, per day
- VehicleA Ugandan-registered 4x4, the usual hire car, at UGX 40,000 including Murchison's own surcharge; bring a foreign-registered one and it is $160.
- $11per vehicle, once for the trip
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $281 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
UWA's tariff charges vehicles per 24 hours, except for concessionaire visitor vehicles, who pay once per trip. Staying at a lodge inside the park puts you in that second group, so the vehicle is counted once above rather than three times.
The full fee schedule for Murchison Falls National ParkRates
From $180 per room. The lodge's own rates page gives $180 bed and breakfast for a single, $230 for a double or twin and $345 for a family room, rising to $200, $270 and $405 on full board. VAT at 18 per cent is included and the rates do not change through the year. Ownership is listed as Ugandan on the strength of the corporate name and no international group behind it, which we could not verify further.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Rates were read in July 2026 from each property's own website, rate-card PDF or published government tariff. A lodge that publishes nothing says On request, and any figure that came from somewhere other than the property is labelled. Park fees are extra almost everywhere: $45 per person per 24 hours for foreign non-residents, plus a vehicle fee that carries a surcharge unique to Murchison. Deliberately left out, so you know why you cannot find them here. Baker's Lodge is closed, with a flood notice still standing on its operator's site, and Murchison Bush Camp has taken its place in that portfolio. Budongo Eco Lodge is closed too, confirmed by Great Lakes Safaris, which now runs Pabidi Lodge in the same forest. Geo Lodges no longer has any Murchison property despite older guides saying otherwise. Yebo Safari Camp near Mubako gate, Kabalega Wilderness Lodge and Shoebill Camp Site appear across the directories but have no website of their own that we could reach, so we cannot confirm their rates, their capacity or that they are still trading. Amuka Safari Lodge is filed under Murchison by many sites and is not here, because it sits at Nakasongola on the Kampala road roughly two hours short of the park. Aerolink's 2026 route network also names Anyundwe House and Papa's Camp at the Bugungu airstrip, which is decent evidence that both exist, but neither publishes anything we were able to check.